March 10, 2017—INRIX, a connected car services and transportation analytics company, has identified the top ten cities primed for an autonomous vehicle rollout.
The cities are as follows:
- New Orleans
- Albuquerque, N.M.
- Tucson, Ariz.
- Portland
- Omaha, Neb.
- El Paso, Texas
- Fresno, Calif.
- Wichita, Kan.
- Las Vegas
- Tulsa, Okla.
To see what urban areas could have the greatest proportion of vehicle travel replaced by self-driving cars, INRIX looked at one year's worth of travel—nearly 1.3 billion trips—in and around the top 50 U.S. cities by population. Combining INRIX data and StreetLight InSight, a mobility analytics online platform from partner StreetLight Data, INRIX Research analyzed trips that began and ended within a 25-mile radius of each downtown and compared this to aggregate regional trips (including outbound, inbound, and passing-through trips) to establish a percentage of intra-city travel. INRIX then looked at the percentage of a city's intra-city trips, 10 miles or less, and combined these two metrics to score each city out of a possible 100 points.
